{"id":555,"date":"2024-08-09T07:42:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T07:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/?p=555"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:30:40","slug":"googlebots-link-crawler-gary-illyes-explains-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/news\/googlebots-link-crawler-gary-illyes-explains-how-it-works-555\/","title":{"rendered":"Googlebot Link Crawler: Gary Illyes Explains How It Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine you\u2019ve been operating under a belief for years: Googlebot, the sophisticated crawler at the heart of the world\u2019s most powerful search engine, navigates websites just like a visitor would\u2014clicking through links and moving from one page to another in real-time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This belief has shaped my SEO strategies, influencing how I design a website’s architecture, manage internal linking, and prioritize crawl budgets.<\/p>\n

But what if this belief was only partially true?<\/p>\n

In a recent episode of Google\u2019s Search Off The Record podcast, Analyst Gary Illyes offered me a revelation that could change how we SEOs think about Googlebot\u2019s behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The insight shared was simple yet profound: Googlebot doesn\u2019t follow links in real-time, as we might have imagined.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, it operates in a way that\u2019s more methodical, more strategic, and perhaps more complex than we\u2019ve given it credit for.<\/p>\n

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